Once was a warriors was scarily real.
I went out with a Maori girl for a while and had my share of incidents and they nailed it.
Had a doctor sewing me up one day and he said Sarajevo was the only place scarier to work than south Auckland.
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Yep, Iāve only known a handful of NZers very well, but it struck me that way. A bit like the original Animal Kingdom
Billy Birminghamās parody of it on Wired World of Sports was so awesome
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And his sequel, about Kiwis on Prozac
Once Were Worriers
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My favourite band growing up, I loved āseventh soujournā some beautiful music that Iāve been reliving lately.
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Great band Squeeze. Brilliant start and then it fell away quite dramatically.
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Iām pretty fond of some later albums (esp. Frank and Play), but they certainly morphed into a very different animal from what they initially were (similar to XTC in that regard).
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Mani, bassist from the stone roses and then primal scream, gone at 63.
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Oh manā¦ I was just listening to him on the Rockonteurs podcast a couple of weeks agoā¦
As good a time as any to listen to his career-defining work on theseā¦ RIPā¦
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Mani was amazing. On his own level.
When my buddy Jason Faulkner played bass in the band Air, he would tell me whenever Mani saw him he would always say āWell here comes the second best bass player in the worldā. Hilarious.
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Waitā¦ what? Youāre mates with Jason Falkner? He of Jellyfish, The Grays, St Vincent band fame?
Thatās a very nice claim to fame in my books. Very nice indeedā¦
Hey, I donāt actually know the guy- but Iām wrapt someone is friends with a bass playerā¦ā¦ā¦
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Falknerās a multi-instumentalistā¦ his main weapon is actually guitar. Not just the bass player (I say that as a - not very good - bass player myselfā¦)
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Yeah very good mates. Often over at his place drinking margaritas on the porch listening to great records and laughing our ā ā ā ā ā off.
And yeah, he can play all the instrument as well as being a great producer also.
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My birthday is Early October, and usually fell on or close to the āoriginalā Bathurst weekend. Great memories of getting up early Sunday morning with my dad, in the dressing gown, and turning on Channel 7 for the day. Moffat and Brock were the constants for as long as I can remember, and I guess being a Ford guy at heart he was my driving hero. And 1977 was the apex. That, and a bit pot of boiled cocktail franks smothered with White Crow for lunch.
Many years later, my wife, ( who is a Canadian) and I are living in Melbourne, and Mrs Chilly is working for a large car leasing company. She gets to go to Sandown for a BMW drive day, ( and yep, Iām green with envy as Iām the car guy, and Mrs Chilly not so much). I ask her how it all went, and she said that it ended up being great as the host of the day- a rather tallish man with a calming deep voice- ended up giving her some individual instruction and then taking her for hot laps around the track. āOHā, I said, who was he? āNot sure- but he had a faint Canadian accentā. āWas his name Allan by any chance?ā āYes, that sounds about right. Nice man!!ā
So my not so car loving wife got to spend some quality time in a BMW around Sandown with Allan Moffat.
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Ian Leesā¦Bass player with Australian band Moving Pictures from 1978 to 1987 and 2011 to 2025.
Passed away 23rd November 2025 from a heart attack.
Ian played bass on their number 1 album Days Of Innocence which contained the hits
What About Me and Bustinā Loose.
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So heās behind that little fretless bit that comes in the bridge.
Spent a lot of my childhood watching Moffat and Brock battle it out. Wasnāt a fan of Moffat as a kid, he was the enemy. But there was always respect. Got to meet him a couple of times, and I was always intimidated meeting him, but he was a thorough gentleman.
Probably not the natural driver Brock was, but he was brilliant in his own way. He was the first professional, he lifted the standards. He was a perfectionist.
I loved how he and Brock would banter in later years and there was a healthy friendship there. A good example is this clip I saw today.
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